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SprottL

Systems / ODEs / Chaotic attractors

Case L of Sprott's 1994 search for minimal chaotic flows — six terms with a single quadratic nonlinearity.

continuous · ODE3 dimensionschaotic

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Definition

\[ \begin{aligned} \dot{y_{0}} &= b y_{2} + y_{1} \\ \dot{y_{1}} &= a y_{0}^{2} - y_{1} \\ \dot{y_{2}} &= 1 - y_{0} \end{aligned} \]

Parameters

Symbol Default Role
a 0.9 adjustable coefficient
b 3.9 adjustable coefficient

Properties

Lyapunov spectrum
$+0.09015,\; +0.003743,\; -1.094$
computed at build
Kaplan–Yorke dimension
$D_{KY} = 2.086$
Divergence ∇·f
$\nabla\!\cdot f = -1$
constant
Equilibria
1 equilibria
0 stable · 1 unstable

Define it in TSDynamics

import tsdynamics as ts

sys = ts.systems.SprottL()
traj = sys.integrate(final_time=100.0, dt=0.01)

exps = sys.lyapunov_spectrum()
ts.kaplan_yorke_dimension(exps)

Reference

Sprott (1994), Phys. Rev. E 50, R647-R650

BibTeX
@misc{sprottl,
  title = {SprottL system},
  note = {Sprott (1994), Phys. Rev. E 50, R647-R650}
}